Understanding Society User Support

01/22/2019

04:21 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1134: Weights Northern Ireland

Dear Olena,
Thank you for your help. Unfortunately I am still struggling to figure out what weights to use, with ... Frida Bowe

02:50 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1101 (Feedback): Use of social media

Dear Craig,
This variable will be corrected and included in the next data release.
Best wishes,
Stephanie Stephanie Auty

01/21/2019

02:25 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1126 (Feedback): Who owns vehicle

Dear Rafael,
Yes, that's right, this variable was not part of the questionnaire from Wave 4 onwards.
Best wishe... Stephanie Auty

01:18 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1135 (In Progress): Wave 8 - Vote 8 - Northern Ireland

Many thanks for your enquiry. The Understanding Society team is looking into it and we will get back to you as soon a... Stephanie Auty

01:17 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1134 (Feedback): Weights Northern Ireland

Stephanie Auty

01:16 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1133 (In Progress): Measures of inequality?

Many thanks for your enquiry. The Understanding Society team is looking into it and we will get back to you as soon a... Stephanie Auty

01:16 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1132 (In Progress): Non-biological children in cohabitation

Many thanks for your enquiry. The Understanding Society team is looking into it and we will get back to you as soon a... Stephanie Auty

01:15 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1131 (In Progress): Harmonization of retrospective cohabitation and marital status information

Many thanks for your enquiry. The Understanding Society team is looking into it and we will get back to you as soon a... Stephanie Auty

01:14 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1130 (In Progress): risk items innovation sample waves 6 and 7

Many thanks for your enquiry. The Understanding Society team is looking into it and we will get back to you as soon a... Stephanie Auty

01/17/2019

04:00 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1134: Weights Northern Ireland

Dear Frida,
UKHLS weights make any subgroup representative, including Northern Ireland. So, just use the weights p... Olena Kaminska

03:02 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1134 (Resolved): Weights Northern Ireland

Hi,
I am using the BHPS/UKHLS harmonised data for Northern Ireland longitudinally. What are the appropriate weigh... Frida Bowe

03:06 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1135 (Resolved): Wave 8 - Vote 8 - Northern Ireland

Hi,
When analysing the data for Northern Ireland in wave 8, it is clear that for the Vote8 variable 2392 of the r... Frida Bowe

11:43 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1133 (Resolved): Measures of inequality?

Hello,
I am working with waves 2 and 3 of understanding society and I was wondering if there is any information on... Luke Barry

01/16/2019

04:51 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1132 (Resolved): Non-biological children in cohabitation

Dear UKHLS support,
Apologies for the multiple posts.
I would like to know if in the retrospective files rega... Ashley Burdett

10:06 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1130: risk items innovation sample waves 6 and 7

Please disregard my +second+ point. I've now realized the DOPSERT data have only been collected in wave 7.
Rui Mata

09:46 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1130 (Resolved): risk items innovation sample waves 6 and 7

Dear Sir/Madam,
I am computing test-retest correlations to assess the temporal stability of risk preference using... Rui Mata

09:49 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1131 (Resolved): Harmonization of retrospective cohabitation and marital status information

Dear UKHLS User Support,
I am currently trying to compile complete relationship histories for individuals using th... Ashley Burdett

01/15/2019

06:16 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1129 (In Progress): fimnlabgrs

Many thanks for your enquiry. The Understanding Society team is looking into it and we will get back to you as soon a... Stephanie Auty

06:10 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1129 (Resolved): fimnlabgrs

Dear UKHLS User Support,
it is quite surprising for me to notice that the missing values (as proxy) of the harmoni... Lydia Palumbo

01/14/2019

03:54 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1128 (In Progress): How to match husbands and wives in USoc without dropping one or the other

Many thanks for your enquiry. The Understanding Society team is looking into it and we will get back to you as soon a... Stephanie Auty

02:05 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1128 (Resolved): How to match husbands and wives in USoc without dropping one or the other

Dear Stephanie, it is me again. I need your help with the following. I try to match husbands and wives (spouses) in U... Nico Ochmann

01:22 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1124: A binary variable for children under the age of 7 in a given household

Dear Stephanie,
thank you very much for your help, your step descriptions were very detailed and I think I unders... Nico Ochmann

12:30 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1127 (In Progress): Determing end date of cohabitation spell

Many thanks for your enquiry. The Understanding Society team is looking into it and we will get back to you as soon a... Stephanie Auty

11:33 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1127 (Resolved): Determing end date of cohabitation spell

Dear supporter,
In our research, we are trying to compute a variable for duration (in months) since end of cohabitin... BARBARA OKUN

12:29 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1126 (In Progress): Who owns vehicle

Many thanks for your enquiry. The Understanding Society team is looking into it and we will get back to you as soon a... Stephanie Auty

01/13/2019

09:31 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1126 (Resolved): Who owns vehicle

Dear All
I see the Understand Society waves 4 to 7 do not have the variable 'x_carown' (who owns vehicle). Is it t... Rafael Maldonado

01/11/2019

10:50 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1125: Weighting problem

Dora,
It is hard to judge what goes wrong from your description - the issue could be in many places.
I have ju... Olena Kaminska

08:10 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #887: Treatment of student sample members

Hello,
sorry for jumping into this discussion.
I just would like to know if the following of university student... Lydia Palumbo

01/10/2019

03:56 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1125: Weighting problem

Dear Stephanie,
Thank you for your reply. My initial query was to get general advice about the weights and not sta... Theodora Kokosi

01/09/2019

05:45 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1125 (Feedback): Weighting problem

Dear Dora,
Our remit at the User Forum is to answer queries related to Understanding Society data and provide gene... Stephanie Auty

05:35 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1112 (Resolved): Device variables at the individual level at Wave 8

Stephanie Auty

05:34 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1119 (Feedback): fiseq_bh and pidp are not unique in the income dataset

Dear Yanan,
We are working on documentation for the unique identifiers for each dataset.
In this case, pidp and... Stephanie Auty

04:35 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1124 (Feedback): A binary variable for children under the age of 7 in a given household

Dear Nico,
It would be better to start with the w_indall file as all individuals are listed there. Keep the variab... Stephanie Auty

01/08/2019

05:21 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1121: Variable "plbornc" vs "plbornc_all

Hello,
As there are only 23 response options for plbornc, many respondents have to choose 97 "other country". They... Alita Nandi

03:31 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1125: Weighting problem

Dear Olena,
Thank you for your reply. I am imputing 5 variables. The 3 of them are linked data about air pollution... Theodora Kokosi

12:55 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1125 (In Progress): Weighting problem

Stephanie Auty

10:44 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1125: Weighting problem

Dear Theodora,
Can you just clarify - what are you imputing: is it one specific variable (item nonresponse) or is ... Olena Kaminska

01:38 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1119: fiseq_bh and pidp are not unique in the income dataset

Dear Yanan,
Thank you for bringing this issue to our attention. Some of our team members are looking into it and w... Stephanie Auty

01/07/2019

04:39 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1125 (Resolved): Weighting problem

Dear all,
Happy new year!
I am facing a problem with the weights from the youth dataset. I am running an analys... Theodora Kokosi

01/04/2019

03:36 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1120: Identification of child in the chmain.dta within the third wave of UKHLS

Hello
"a. what is absparno?"
ANS: c_absparno = absent parent code. So, if a respondent has 3 biological childre... Alita Nandi

01/02/2019

05:57 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1101: Use of social media

Dear Craig,
We are looking into the issue of missingness, and have found from looking at the scanned questionnaire... Stephanie Auty

01:31 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1124 (In Progress): A binary variable for children under the age of 7 in a given household

Many thanks for your enquiry. The Understanding Society team is looking into it and we will get back to you as soon a... Stephanie Auty

12/28/2018

05:45 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1118: f_closenum filtering issues

Thank you Stephanie,
I have now realised I was getting confused at the distinction between AND and OR, from the ... Ella Moonan-Howard

12/26/2018

11:51 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1124 (Resolved): A binary variable for children under the age of 7 in a given household

Dear Alita,
I hope you had a good holiday season. When you get the chance please help me with this one. I would lik... Nico Ochmann